Bracelet holder



Jan. 18,1927. 1,614,864

' B. M. BESKOW BRACELET HOLDER Filed July '7. 1925 fiweniar:

Patented Jan. 18, 1927.

OFFICE.

BERNH'ARD 'BESKQW, OF MIAMI, FLORIDA.

BRACELET HOLDER.

Application filed July 7, 1925. Serial No. 42,017.

This invention relates to a bracelet holder for watches, golf stroke registers or the like, and has for its object to provide a simple device to which wrist straps are to be at- 5 tached and which is of such construction that the tighter the wrist straps are pulled the greater will be the gripping'act-ion on the watch or other similar device to be mounted in the holder, all as will hereinafter more fully appear.

In the accompanying drawing Fig. 1 is a plan view of one form of the improved holder. Fig. 2 is a section of the same on line 2-2, Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a plan view of a slightly dilferent form of the invention from that shown in Figs. 1 and 2. Figs. 4 and 5 are sections of the same on lines &---4 and 5-5, respectively, of Fig. 8. Fig. 6 is a plan view of still another form of the invention.

Referring to the drawing, 12 denotes thin plates, which may be of copper or other easily bent metal, and each of which is provided with inclined sockets 13 arranged to converge inwardly toward each other and in which sockets the in-turned ends of bow springs 14 loosely fit. Each of these bow springs is provided with upwardly extending gripping fingers or members 15 preferably formed integral with said how springs by properly bending the same, the said gripping fingers having, at their upper ends, in turned projections which are intended to overlie a watch or similar article to be contained in the holder. The plates 12 are preferably provided with slots 17 for the reception of the folded ends of wrist straps 18 the opposite ends of which will be suitably connected together, as by a buckle or the like.

In the form of the invention shown in Figs. 3, 4 and 5 the plates 12 are slidingly connected together by means of an extension or tongue 12 with which one of the plates is provided, and one end of which extension or tongue is overlapped by lugs 12 struck out from the other plate. Also in this form of the invention the plates 12 are provided at their outer ends with sockets 17 for the reception of the ends of wire loops 19 with which wrist straps 18 may be connected.

In the form of the invention shown in Fig. 6 the holder consists of a single piece of spring wire properly bent to form bow springs 14 with their. gripping fingers 16, the inner parts of said wire member serving as the holder fora watch or the like, and the wrist straps '18 may be connected with the central portions of the-holder as will be or 12 of Figs. 1 and 3, or on the central parts 12 of the bent wire holder shown in Fig. 6, the bow springs will be forced outward, as indicated by the dotted lines in Figs. 1, 3 and 6, to release the gripping members or fingers 15 or 16 from an article to be mounted in the holder, or to force the said gripping members or fingers outward when an article is to be placed in the holder.

In other words, the stress of the outwardly bowed springs 14 and 141 is inward, so as normally to force the gripping fingers 15 or 16 inward, to grippingposition, and the gripping action of these fingers will be increased by tension on the straps 18.

From the foregoing it will be understood that the invention provides a simple bracelet holder, for watches or the like, consisting of very few parts and which therefore may be manufactured at very little cost. It will be noted that in all the forms of the invention herein shown and described the holder comprises a yielding support and bow springs connected therewith and having gripping fingers which will grip an article more tightly as the wrist straps are tightened on the wrist of the wearer.

The invention is not to be understood as being limited to the details herein shown and described, as other constructions embodying modifications of the invention may be adopted without departing from the essence of the invention as defined by the appended claims.

Having thus described my invention I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

1. A bracelet holder, for watches or the like, consisting of a yielding frame having means for the attachment of straps thereto, said frame comprising outwardly bowed springs having integral upwardly extending gripping members with in-turned projections at their upper ends, said outwardly bowed springs acting to force said gripping member inward for gripping action on the article to be held.

2. A bracelet holder, for watches or the like, comprising a yielding support having means for the attachment of straps thereto, and outwardly bowed springs connected With said support and having integral upwardly extending members with inturned projections at their upper ends, said support consisting of two slidingly mounted plates with which said springs are connected.

ends, said supports consisting of two plates having inclined sockets in which the ends of said bow springs loosely fit.

4L. A bracelet holder, for Watches or the like, comprising a yielding support and bow springs connected with said support and having upwardly extending members with in-turned projections at their upper ends, said support consisting of two yieldingly mounted plates with which said springs are connected, one of said plates having a tongue and the other of said plates having struck-out lugs overlapping one end of said tongue.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature.

BERNHARD M. BESKOWV. 

